We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and OPNsense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The product offers very good security."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"It's open source."
"We have been operating here in our lab for several months, and everything appears to be extremely stable."
"One of the most valuable features is the network checking. Additionally, the firewall and web filtering functionalities are highly useful."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"The solution has high availability."
"We can open a new VPN connection easily. It's much easier than with Fortinet in our experience."
"I have found the solution has some great features overall, such as guest access capabilities, dashboards, and ease of use. There is plenty of documentation and support and it has the plugins that I needed."
"The interface and the dashboard are the most valuable features of this solution."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"The analytics are weak."
"The price could be better."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"Its interface could be better."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"There is room for improvement in performance and the support language. The support they're providing right now is from a different country, and in our country, there are people—network admins and IT heads—who don't speak English properly. So Barracuda needs to provide support agents who speak additional languages, such as Bangla."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"The interface isn't so friendly user. But we have some technicians here who are quite confident with this tool. OPNSense could maybe add sets of rules so it's simpler to manage different groups with particular needs."
"In terms of improvement, the performance could be enhanced."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"There are some add-ons that need enhancements to make management easier for users, especially the reporting features. Some reports don't show the level of detail I'm looking for, and I've had trouble installing certain add-ons, especially for Internet bandwidth shaping within my company."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while OPNsense is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OPNsense writes "Good interface and firewall capabilities and overall easy to use". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall and Meraki MX, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. OPNsense report.
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